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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.

Andre Gide

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Love Positive Reason Wisdom
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Compliment Expression Man Silly
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Achievement Depend God
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Life Live Obligation Truth
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Answer Console Insult People
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Happiness Memories Past Prevention
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Cherish Goodness Humanity Live Men

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.

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